Family Affair
Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment. Davis' traditional English gentleman's gentleman, Mr. Giles French, also had adjustments to make as he became saddled with the responsibility of caring for 15-year-old Cissy and the 6-year-old twins, Jody and Buffy. The show ran for 138 episodes. Family Affair was created and produced by Don Fedderson, also known for My Three Sons and The Millionaire.
Seasons
1. Buffy
Air Date: 1966-09-12
The excellent family series begins when Bill Davis, a fantastic construction engineer, unexpectedly adopts Buffy, who along with Jody and Cissy, have lost their parents in an accident. Buffy comes first and at first, Bill doesn't like her and wants to send her back to Terre Haute. Buffy gets the feeling that Bill doesn't like her and runs off to hide in the basement. Bill tells her that he likes her and wants her to stay. In the end, when Bill gets ready to leave for a trip, Jody and Cissy come to be with Buffy.
2. Jody and Cissy
Air Date: 1966-09-19
Cissy joins the family and Mr. French thinks that he is not wanted anymore. Mr. French changes his mind after Buffy puts her doll in his suitcase and decides to stay after all.
3. The Gift Horse
Air Date: 1966-09-26
Buffy and Jody decide to give Bill a great gift- a horse!
4. The Matter of School
Air Date: 1966-10-03
Bill decides to send Cissy to a private girls' school in Connecticut, and even though she would prefer to attend high school locally, she reluctantly agrees to go, thinking Bill wants to get her out of the way.
5. Marmalade
Air Date: 1966-10-10
Mr. French is chosen for an ad for marmalade and is a huge promotion success, until he tastes the marmalade that he is hawking.
6. Room with a Viewpoint
Air Date: 1966-10-17
Buffy doesn't like the new changes in her and Cissy's bedroom and refuses to ever step foot in it.
7. Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?
Air Date: 1966-10-24
Buffy's doll, Mrs. Beasley, gets knocked out of the apartment window by accident and Buffy goes up at arms about the whole thing. She fnds out that a little girl owns a doll that looks just like her lost Mrs. Beasley, and realizes that it is not her doll. Suddenly, the real Mrs. Beasley doll is found in a trash bin.
8. Who's Afraid of Nural Shpeni?
Air Date: 1966-11-07
Mr. French gets Lebanese cooking lessons from a Middle Eastern restaurant owner named Nural Shpeni, and her family forces Mr. French to marry her, whether he wants to or not.
9. A Matter for Experts
Air Date: 1966-11-14
Buffy and Jody have been spending a lot a time with each other at school, and it is a major concern for the vice principal and a child psychologist who states that Buffy and Jody need to make friends and join in with other children.
10. Beware the Other Woman
Air Date: 1966-11-21
When an old flame steps back into Bill's life, the children think that he will get married and send them back to Indiana.
11. Take Two Aspirin
Air Date: 1966-11-28
Bill gets a chance to work with a friend in Mexico on a job, but his trip is cut short when Mr. French comes down with the flu and difficultt in keeping touch with the family.
12. Love Me, Love Me Not
Air Date: 1966-12-05
When Jody sees a friend getting spanked by his father, his father tells him that he punishes him out of love. So Jody takes it upon himself to earn a spanking from Uncle Bill to see if he loves him enough to enforce physical punishment.
13. The Thursday Man
Air Date: 1966-12-12
Cissy learns a lesson in snooping when she is to do a paper on Mr. French and finds a shocking secret about him.
14. Think Deep
Air Date: 1966-12-26
Cissy worships a teacher named Julian Hill and spouts his theories all through the household. Bill invites the teacher to dinner and Cissy sees that he is not the man that she worships so dearly when he goes off on Buffy and Jody for an innocent spill.
15. Hard Hat Jody
Air Date: 1967-01-02
Jody's allusion about being a constuction worker leads him to ""gaining"" a job with a constuction worker who Bill is trying to get a job with.
16. That Was the Dinner That Wasn't
Air Date: 1967-01-09
Cissy is disheartened because she will be left out of a mother-daughter event at school, and she doesn't tell Bill what is wrong with her.
17. All Around the Town
Air Date: 1967-01-16
Bill and the whole family are seeing the Gaynors off on their cruise. Buffy and Jody think that Bill is having dinner with them, but when they find out the thuth, they are left on the dock by themselves. Mrs. Gaynor sees them and calls Bill, but Buffy and Jody run off in the city to find the owner of some money they found on the dock.
18. One for the Little Boy
Air Date: 1967-01-23
Bill plans to do some serious bonding with Jody by taking him on a business trip, but Murphy's Law plagues the trip. But Jody states that just being with Bill is exciting enough.
19. Fancy Free
Air Date: 1967-01-30
Buffy and Jody are placed in a fast-learning portion of their grade, but Bill is spending his time with a woman who is quite uncertain about what she wants. The twins get a friendly window-washer to help them with their work, but a call from the school to Bill makes him see that the children are more important than a hot date.
20. A Helping Hand
Air Date: 1967-02-06
A lesson to be learned in this episode: Helping people is good, but it only goes but so far. The family learns this the hard way. Mr. French helps out a maid who is very bad with housekeeping by covering up her mistakes, and this charade goes on until she is hired by a guest who is throwing a party. Eventually, she gets fired and she gets on Mr. French. Bill does the same thing when he takes over the twins' school project, and he gets credit. Cissy tells them all about how important it is to get involved in the family because they had none when they were in Terre Haute.
21. Once in Love with Buffy
Air Date: 1967-02-13
Aunt Fran's back and she wants the kids to come back with her. She believes that Bill will not be a suitable person for the kids. Of course, Fran thinks that this fact is confirmed when Buffy thinks that Bill doesn't want them there. When teh family gets ready to leave, Buffy sees the light and changes her mind.
22. Ballerina Buffy
Air Date: 1967-02-20
Buffy gets chosen for a lead in a ballet, which is totally annoying for a mother whose little girl, Melissa, was passed over for a complete stranger. She has reason to suspect foul play when the casting director is Bill's old girlfriend Margo, but she knew nothing about Bill's children until after she had cast the roles. Then Margo tells Buffy that she will be a big success and travel all over the world. Buffy gets the idea that it means right away, so she botches up her role in the production so that she will not be separated from her new family.
23. The Mother Tongue
Air Date: 1967-02-27
Buffy and Jody meets a new girl named Marilyn, who is the daughter of a Chinese diplomat and speaks no English. Mr. French tries to work out his Cantonese and unknowingly insults her.
24. Everybody Needs Somebody
Air Date: 1967-03-13
Buffy and Jody play matchmaker for Mr. French, but he thinks that they do not want him around because he punished them so severely.
25. The Way It Was
Air Date: 1967-03-20
Bill sends the kids away for a week-long trip at camp because they are driving him up the wall. He then starts to miss them when he goes back to his bachelor life.
26. All Nephews Are Created Equal
Air Date: 1967-03-27
Mr. French gets a visit from his nephew David. French is shocked when David announces that he wants to become a dentist, but the final straw comes when he goes out with Cissy.
27. The Prize
Air Date: 1967-04-10
The twins win a baby lamb in a cereal contest, which is not a good thing if your neighbors are trying to sleep.
28. What Did You Do in the West, Uncle?
Air Date: 1967-04-17
Bill takes the twins to the rodeo where he meets his old friend Gabe, whom he invites to stay with them. The twins are mesmerized at the thought of meeting a real live cowboy, and Gabe takes them under his wing. Of course, Bill thinks that they like Gabe more than they like him. But the twins tell him that Bill will always come first in their lives.
29. The Award
Air Date: 1967-05-01
Buffy and Jody want to make an award for Bill for being the best uncle, but they fall allergic to the clay they are making the award with. Bill thinks that the allergies are caused by irregular parenting, but the doctor states that they are allergic to modeling clay.
30. The Butler Method
Air Date: 1967-05-15
Cissy has trouble finding a date for the Sadie Hawkins dance, and asks a boy who throws her a curve because of a broken leg. Thinking that he is lying, she feels miserable. Bill suggests that an actor friend of his who is visiting escort her to the dance, but Cissy turns him down. Then, Cissy sees that Virgil really does has a broken leg, and she is happy that he didn't lie to her.
1. Birds, Bees and Buffy
Air Date: 1967-09-11
Buffy and Jody wants to know where babies come from, and a whole bunch of stories confuses not only them, but parents as well. Cissy then tells them the right procedure of how babies are made.
2. First Love
Air Date: 1967-09-18
Bill and Buffy both fall in love with people they cannot have.
3. Go Home, Mr. French
Air Date: 1967-09-25
Mr. French's romance with an old flame puts his job in jeopardy when he thinks about working with his old love in another house.
4. Arthur, the Invisible Bear
Air Date: 1967-10-02
Jody's new imaginary friend is really getting him in trouble and it tales a trip to a psychologist to figure out what is going on.
5. The Other Cheek
Air Date: 1967-10-09
A girl picks on Jody, who doesn't dare hit her back.
6. The Candy Striper
Air Date: 1967-10-16
Cissy becomes a candy-stripper, but feels emotionally insecure when she unknowingly breaks one of the supervisor's rules when she gives a patient some water. She is doomed to quit but Bill tells her to face up to her mistake and keep her job. It might be all and well for Cissy, but it doesn't work for Buffy when she wants to be a Brownie, but finds out she is not the right age.
7. Fat, Fat, the Water Rat
Air Date: 1967-10-23
Buffy makes friends with a bunch of kids, unbeknownst to her that they hate fancy kids. Mr. French catcher her and forbids her to play with them again. Uncle Bill however supports Buffy's choice and lets her play with her new friends.
8. The Toy Box
Air Date: 1967-11-06
Uncle Bill enforces an iron-clad confiscation order of toys constantly being left on the floor by the kids and they can never get them back. It hits a little too close when Buffy's beloved Mrs. Beasley is in danger of being taken away from her.
9. Take Me Out of the Ballgame
Air Date: 1967-11-13
Jody tries his hardest to be on a local stickball team, only to be beaten out by Buffy, who happens to be a great player as well.
10. You Like Buffy Better
Air Date: 1967-11-20
Cissy thinks that Buffy is being shafted by Bill because he favors Jody. Bill then decides to spend all of his time with Buffy, but then, this starts to be a problem for Cissy and Jody.
11. Freddie
Air Date: 1967-11-27
Freddie, Bill's old friend from Terre Haute, wishes that she had children after spending time with Buffy and Jody.
12. Our Friend Stanley
Air Date: 1967-12-04
Buffy and Jody make friends with a disabled boy named Stanley, much to the dismay of his overprotective mother.
13. Somebody Upstairs
Air Date: 1967-12-11
Cissy and Buffy are starstruck when they meet a Broadway star living in the building.
14. Star Dust
Air Date: 1967-12-18
Bill is starstruck now, with a famous actress that wants to give up the business and settle down with him.
15. Best of Breed
Air Date: 1967-12-25
Buffy and Jody find a dog, but the landlord lays down the law against dogs. The landlord recants after the dog wins a dog contest.
16. Family Reunion
Air Date: 1968-01-01
Bill and Mr. French visit the kids' old home in Terre Haute where they are faced with a painful decision: Stay with their aunt who makes up stuff about how they are a burden to Bill or go back to New York.
17. A Man's Place
Air Date: 1968-01-08
A new romance that Mr. French has puts him in the position to make him think that his current life as a butler is not good enough for his date.
18. The Great Kow-Tow
Air Date: 1968-01-15
Buffy and Jody go Chinese when they are ""adopted"" by a elderly Chinese man.
19. The Fish Watchers
Air Date: 1968-01-22
Uncle Bill gets the kids involved with tropical fish after the advice of a fellow construction worker.
20. The Day Nothing Happened
Air Date: 1968-01-29
A Blizzard can be anyone's worst enemy. This lesson is true when everything goes awry for the David family in Long Island: French is stranded in the blizzard, kids Building snowmen inside, ruined potential dates, Oy Vey!
21. A House in the Country
Air Date: 1968-02-05
Bill wants to move to a house in the suburbs, but the kids persuade him to stay where he is.
22. A Matter of Tonsils
Air Date: 1968-02-12
Poor Buffy and Jody have to have their tonsils out.
23. A Member of the Family
Air Date: 1968-02-19
Mr. French thinks he is left out of Cissy's drawings for school.
24. His and Hers
Air Date: 1968-02-26
Bill and the family meet their potential counterparts when he meets a woman named Margaret and her kids. The kids think that it's real cool to have kids that are like them at first, but they find out that they are too much alike and do not get along with them.
25. The New Cissy
Air Date: 1968-03-04
Cissy is sad because she is not getting any attention from boys, except one named Wendell who she thinks is dull by comparison. So she have a complete and total makeover and she is an instant sex symbol! The boys are so enamored by her, except for Wendell who liked her as she was before. Cissy realizes that Wendell liked her the whole time for just being herself.
26. The Family Outing
Air Date: 1968-03-11
Camping is not such a hot idea for Mr. French, Buffy and Cissy, which spoils the boys' fun.
27. Mr. French's Holiday
Air Date: 1968-03-18
Mr. French has a nice vacation planned for himself, but the kids come along and makes his vacation more enjoyable, whether he likes it or not.
28. The Mrs. Beasley Story
Air Date: 1968-03-25
Buffy is disheartened because Mrs. Beasley needs arm surgery
29. The Baby Sitters
Air Date: 1968-04-01
Uncle Bill leaves for a trip (and having trouble finding his dentist as well) and Mr. French goes out for the evening, leaving Cissy to watch the twins. Then Cissy leaves to go to a concert (big mistake) and leaves her friend Sharon in charge. Then Sharon comes down with the measles and her mama comes to watch the kids. Then her mama levaes to take care o Sharon and puts her husband and his poker pals on babysitter duty. My lord, what a turn of events, but thankfully Bill and French come home to see all the trouble that Cissy started in the first place.
30. Family Portrait
Air Date: 1968-04-08
A girlfriend urges Bill to stay home more.
1. The Latch Key Kid
Air Date: 1968-09-23
Buffy meets a girl named lana who lives along wheile her mother goes out all the time. Buffy considers being just like Lana, until she comes over and confesses that Buffy has a god life.
2. By a Whisker
Air Date: 1968-09-30
Jody must clip French's whiskers to get into a club.
3. A Waltz from Vienna
Air Date: 1968-10-07
Cissy is asked by a boy in Vienna to be his bride. Cissy likes the idea at first, but reality comes in and snaps some sense into her.
4. Your Friend, Jody
Air Date: 1968-10-14
A boxer advises Bill to send Jody to a boys camp.
5. The Substitute Teacher
Air Date: 1968-10-21
Jody is attracted to a new substitute teacher, but is sad when she leaves. Uncle Bill meets Jody's secret crush and finds out that she looks somewhat like the children's mother.
6. Oliver
Air Date: 1968-11-04
The twins bring home a large dog that dislikes Bill.
7. Christmas Came a Little Early
Air Date: 1968-11-11
Buffy throws an early Christmas party for a sick little girl who might not live to see it.
8. The Unsound of Music
Air Date: 1968-11-18
A nightclub singer coaches tone-deaf Buffy.
9. Albertine
Air Date: 1968-12-02
A little girl named Albertine charms everyone by bragging about her father, which she doesn't really have.
10. A Matter of Choice
Air Date: 1968-12-09
Cissy befriends a girl who uses her to disobey her parents. Uncle Bill feels that Buffy and Jody would benefit from listening to fairy tales than watching war-based programs on TV, but the fairy tales end up giving them nightmares.
11. Ciao, Uncle Bill
Air Date: 1968-12-16
Uncle Bill might have found the right woman to marry in Rome, but calls it off when she doesn't like children
12. A Nanny for All Seasons
Air Date: 1968-12-23
French contemplates marriage to raise his professional esteem.
13. Family Plan
Air Date: 1968-12-30
Bill is laid up with a broken leg from a ski accident. The kids and his girlfriend both give him some horrendous care.
14. To Love with Buffy
Air Date: 1969-01-06
Bill takes Buffy on a trip with him to Puerto Rico to spend some time together. He then meets a flame of his, but he vows to spend all of his time with Buffy.
15. A Family Group
Air Date: 1969-01-13
Cissy brings home a friend named Dana who brags to everyone that her family life is absolutely fabulous, until Bill finds out that her parents are divorced and are looking for her.
16. A Lesson for Grown-Ups
Air Date: 1969-01-20
The siblings take action to solve a financial crisis.
17. Oh, To Be in England
Air Date: 1969-01-27
A year in England doesn't include Bill.
18. A Matter of Privacy
Air Date: 1969-02-03
The twins learn how to eavesdrop with a tape recorder.
19. Lost in Spain: Part 1
Air Date: 1969-02-10
A fantastic family trip in Spain goes absolutely wrong when Mr. French and the twins get lost.
20. Lost in Spain: Part 2
Air Date: 1969-02-17
While Mr. French desperately searches for Buffy and Jody, the twins are going into unknown parts of Spain where they are picked up by a nun and a bunch of schoolchildren.
21. Lost in Spain: Part 3
Air Date: 1969-02-24
The Civil Guards are putting an APB out on the twins. Buffy and Jody are spotted by Carlos and Maria and are afraid to ell the guards. So They take care of them and take them to a church, where thankfully, Bill and his friends find them.
22. A Diller, a Dollar
Air Date: 1969-03-03
Buffy has a chance to skip a grade, but she is failing. Bill thinks that she is failing to stay with Jody, but Buffy is actually in love with a boy in her grade.
23. The Young Man from Bolivia
Air Date: 1969-03-10
Jody is jealous of attention paid to his Bolivian pen pal.
24. Speak for Yourself, Mr. French
Air Date: 1969-03-17
A young woman pursues Mr. French.
25. The Flip Side
Air Date: 1969-03-24
Cissy falls for a singer who writes a song about her, but as he goes off on tour, they lose touch. Cissy goes to one of his concerts to see him again, only her heart is broken when she sees him with another girl.
26. The Matter of Dignity
Air Date: 1969-03-31
Poison-pen letters implicate Mr. French in a scandal.
27. Flower Power
Air Date: 1969-04-07
Cissy wants to be a hippie, much to Bill's chagrin.
28. My Man, the Star
Air Date: 1969-04-14
Mr. French gets a role as King Henry VIII in a film production, only to have him look really stupid.
1. No Uncle Is an Island
Air Date: 1969-09-25
After Bill returns from a vacation, the kids decide to let him just kick back and relax, but constant interruptions make that totally impossible.
2. The Wings of an Angel
Air Date: 1969-10-02
An ex-convict ask Bill for help finding a job
3. Uncle Prince Charming
Air Date: 1969-10-09
Cissy's friend falls for Uncle Bill.
4. Cissy's Apartment
Air Date: 1969-10-16
Cissy's independence is put to the test when she decides to stay in her own apartment with a friend. Her family wil not leave her alone, but when they stop coming, she feels lonesome for them.
5. The Jody Affair
Air Date: 1969-10-23
While Jody is playing with his friends at school, a window gets broken and Jody is blamed for it. When Jody is suspended, Bill considers taking him to a private school. He reconsiders when one of Jody's friends confesses to breaking the window.
6. With This Ring
Air Date: 1969-10-30
Cissy and Gregg decide to get engaged.
7. What's Funny About a Broken Leg?
Air Date: 1969-11-06
Buffy gets a broken leg and the family tries to cheer her up, but to no avail.
8. The Birthday Boy
Air Date: 1969-11-13
The twins plan a surprise birthday party for Mr. French.
9. The Stowaway
Air Date: 1969-11-20
Buffy and Jody discover a runaway orphan and decides to keep him without Mr. French knowing about it.
10. Number One Boy
Air Date: 1969-12-04
Bill's valet from Hong Kong usurps French's place.
11. A Tale of Two Travels
Air Date: 1969-12-11
Cissy stays with a friend while the rest of the family goes to Boston. Subsequently, no one has a good time.
12. Maudie
Air Date: 1969-12-18
A rich, titled English widow proposes to French.
13. Goodbye Harold
Air Date: 1969-12-25
Buffy's hamster runs away in the park.
14. The Girl Graduate
Air Date: 1970-01-01
Graduate Cissy plans to stay out all night.
15. Grandpa, Sir
Air Date: 1970-01-08
The siblings' long-absent grandfather pays a visit.
16. Marooned
Air Date: 1970-01-15
Mr. French and the twins are snowbound in Vermont.
17. Mr. Osaki's Tree
Air Date: 1970-01-22
A bonsai tree given to Jody begins to die.
18. The Language of Love
Air Date: 1970-01-29
Bill asks a doctor to help Buffy's pal who is disabled.
19. The Inheritance
Air Date: 1970-02-05
The twins get a small inheritance.
20. There Goes New York
Air Date: 1970-02-12
A tidal wave is predicted for New York and the kids get scared.
21. Wouldn't It Be Loverly
Air Date: 1970-02-19
Buffy and Jody meets a kid named George whose parents let him do whatever he pleases. The twins wanna be treated that way, too, but Uncle Bill teaches them a lesson in early independence they will never forget.
22. The Boys Against the Girls
Air Date: 1970-02-26
Jody is a victim of peer pressure when he is forced to choose between a stickball team and taking up for Buffy, who the team ridicules.
23. The Old Cowhand
Air Date: 1970-03-05
Jody meets his favorite movie western hero, Chaps Callahan, and makes friends with him. Jody decides to introduce Chap to his friends, and finds out that he is not the same as he was in his movies. Jody is disheartened because Chap is not who he used to be, and Chap reassures him that he is the same person, just older.
24. Angel in the Family
Air Date: 1970-03-12
Mr French tries to help a friend by talking to the daughter about the life of being an actress. His efforts are negated when Bill finds the daughter an acting position.
25. Family in Paradise: Part 1
Air Date: 1970-03-26
Bill takes the family and Mr French to Tahiti for a vacation. Everyone enjoys the place.
26. Family in Paradise: Part 2
Air Date: 1970-04-02
Uncle Bill considers having everyone stay in Tahiti and live there.
1. The Good Neighbors
Air Date: 1970-09-17
Tired of the unfriendliness from all of the tenants in the building, Buffy and Jody decide to throw a party for all of the neighbors. Then the neighbors get stuck in an elevator and they work together to fix the problem.
2. Desert Isle: Manhattan Style
Air Date: 1970-09-24
Bill asks Cissy to babysit the twin while he and French are out. When her boyfriend calls and asks her to go on a trip, she calls someone else to take her place and then just leaves. The replacement does not get there because of a blizzard.
3. Eastward Ho!
Air Date: 1970-10-01
Bill's friend, Eng Ho, is planning an arranged marriage for his daughter, Ming Lee, and wants Bill to give her a place to stay until the wedding. Cissy then makes friends with her and takes her out with her friends. Ming Lee then falls for her escort, which is a bad idea when she is about to be married. Ming Lee decides not to marry, and her father threatend to take her back to Hong Kong. Bill convinces Eng to let Ming Lee stay in America.
4. Meet Emily
Air Date: 1970-10-08
When Mr. French gets too strict with the kids, Bill decides that he needs to loosen up. Bill hires Emily Turner to help Mr. French out, and she is won over by the kids because of her openness and free will. Mr. French hates Emily because of her attitude and decides that the apartment isn't big enough for two domestics. Mr. French then realizes that Emily is a great asset and they decide to work together.
5. The Return of Maudie
Air Date: 1970-10-15
French knows Maudie, a nobelwoman, as a former barmaid.
6. It Can't Be Five Years
Air Date: 1970-10-22
The kids celebrate five years of living in the Davis apartment bu throwing a surprise party for Bill, who doesn't make it because of a trip to Washington D.C. Emily then reminds him of the day and he goes to the party after all.
7. Travels with Cissy
Air Date: 1970-10-29
Cissy and Gregg? Getting married? Not if Bill can help it. He takes the kids to California to get Cissy to change her mind. Bill then takes her to a studio party where Cissy meets Steve Hunter, a handsome western star. She falls for him and, after hearing stories about Steve, Bill tries to stop this new romance by bringing Gregg out to win her back. Gregg tells Cissy that he wishes her lots of luck with Steve. Steve then proposes to Cissy, and she refuses.
8. Stamp of Approval
Air Date: 1970-11-05
Jody falls for a girl named Geraldine only because he wants her stamp. Bill falls for a woman to get a job with her foundation. Jody then talks about stamp collecting and Geraldine becomes friends with him and gives him the stamp that he was after. Jody then gives the stamp back to her because he's more interested in her. The woman doesn't give Bill a job, but they become friends.
9. And Baby Makes Eight
Air Date: 1970-11-12
Cissy takes care of her pregnant friend while her soldier husband is out on a job.
10. Say Uncle
Air Date: 1970-11-19
Bill refuses to fight Jody's classmate's father.
11. Class Clown
Air Date: 1970-11-26
Bill goes out on a date with a funny comedianne.
12. The Unsinkable Mr. French
Air Date: 1970-12-03
Events conspire to make French lose his cool.
13. Wish You Were Here
Air Date: 1970-12-10
Jody worries that Bill can't attend a father/son night.
14. Feat of Clay
Air Date: 1970-12-17
Bill's new girlfriend gives him a genuine primitive Colombian artifact, in which Buffy and Jody take to school and to have it broken! They try to put the pieces back together again and uses clay to make an exact copy of the statue. Their handiwork is displayed at the gallery and people are trying to buy it. The kids confess their doings to Bill's girlfriend.
15. Heroes Are Born
Air Date: 1970-12-31
Jody makes friends with a boy in teh park whose uncle is Ken Granger, a football superstar. Jody starts worshipping the ground that Granger walks on until he finds out that Granger is suspended from the team for betting on his own games. Jody is disappointed, but Uncle Bill tells him that people do not act the way we want them to act.
16. Nobody Here But Us Uncles
Air Date: 1971-01-07
The siblings try to pair Bill with their teacher.
17. Too Late, Too Soon
Air Date: 1971-01-14
Emily playes matchmaker to Mr. French and Miss Faversham, and a matchbreaker to her son Jim and Cissy. Bill thinks that Emily believes that Jim is not good enough for Cissy.
18. The Littlest Exile
Air Date: 1971-01-21
The Davis family meets Elena and a little boy named Johnnie, who is running away from military agents who want to take him back to his father in a military-torn country.
19. Put Your Dreams Away
Air Date: 1971-01-28
Cissy meets up with her old friend Russ Brooks, who is joining the Peace Corps in Chile. Cissy wants to join Russ, but Bill tries to discourage her decision. Russ and Cissy decide to run off to Chile and get married, but Cissy backs out when she finds out the risks involved.
20. The Joiners
Air Date: 1971-02-04
Buffy wants to join a clique, but is dropped because she is younger by one year. Bill makes a deal with Shirley, the leader, that if he builds them a clubhouse, Buffy can join the club. After the clubhouse is built, Buffy is now a member, but Cissy wants her to run for secretary. The current secretary, Carol, wants to know why Buffy is in the club and Shirley tells her the truth and Buffy is out of the club.
21. Cinder-Emily
Air Date: 1971-02-11
Emily wants to go to Jim's graduation ball, but can't because of four reasons: no date, no dance experience, nothing to wear, and fear of embarassing her son. Buffy and Jody help her out, and tries to get Mr. French to take her to the ball. Mr. French decides to take her, but comes down with the flu. Bill cancels a trip to take Emily to the ball.
22. Goodbye, Mrs. Beasley
Air Date: 1971-02-18
Buffy meets a real, live Mrs. Beasley, an old lady who owns a toy store, when a friend forces her to give up her doll, Mrs. Beasley.
23. Buffy's Fair Lady
Air Date: 1971-02-25
Buffy meets a chubby girl named Angela who has a crush on Jody. Buffy tries her best to turn Angela into a lovely young lady and puts together a party so Angela can make friends. Buffy gets Jody to dance with Angela, but he bribes another boy to dance with her. Angela is disheartened when she finds out that this whole party was staged. Buffy and Jody then apologize for the way they treated her and gets her to make friends the right way.
24. You Can't Fight City Hall
Air Date: 1971-03-04
Buffy, Jody and their friend Ricky find a vacant lot where they can play, until the city decides to put a parking lot on that space.
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Rating
6.6/10
Release Date
1966-09-12
Episodes
138 (5 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Don Fedderson Productions